Make Smaller PDF Files
11/7/2025
How to adjust the Civil 3D and AutoCAD default PDF settings saves in custom PC3 files to reduce PDF file size.
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The other sneaky trick is to preplot all those resolved DREF, XREF, and even IREF files in our project drawings to the DWF format.
A preplot to DWF and the use of them as IREFs to produce deliverables substantially reduces both the plot time and file sizes at crunch time. Hoorah.